Ladyfest Auckland!
As part of the weekend’s Ladyfest, Cherry Bomb organised a zines & things market day! Saturday’s weather was horrible, but impressive numbers of people turned up to Cross Street Studios to check things out anyway.
I took along a table of Moon Rocket leftovers (shhh, don’t look at that link, it’s broken! A replacement site is coming very soon). Other tables were filled by the Audio Foundation cd shop, Cherry Bomb Comics, Alex (Instant Intensity), Kim & Charlie from Wellington (Pinktricity & a distro table), Mini & 10-22-38 Astoria & friends, Radical Youth & Freedom Fighters, a girl who made jewellery out of buttons, & a music distro. There was also a reading space with some of the Cherry Bomb reading library, a free box & space for workshops.
I took a short workshop about zine structures and bindings, and showed people how to fold bits of paper up and sew them together. Other workshops included a discussion between Cherry Bomb and Wellington’s new Space Thing (joined partway through by The Girly Project) about DIY social spaces; “Worse Than Queer”, about race in alternative scenes, and a guitar workshop by Brenda.
I picked up some new local zines:
- Mini the typewriter special edition. Mini used to be in the Moon Rocket catalogue, but I hadn’t seen this issue. It’s pocket-sized and full of typewriter trivia, cut & paste art and a hot typewriter centrefold. Email hey_tess at hotmail dotcom if you want a copy.
- Two Fifteenths is a thin volume of sweet short fiction subtitled “A pair of stories by Cara Pollock, featuring two boys, some fish, a rather burnt birthday cake, the sky before dawn, and pictures of everything through from arsonists to zebras”. Cara can be contacted through her website, albatroi.net, which doesn’t have details of this zine but does have other stories she’s written.
- Drawn Out Lives: Collections from Suburbia by Shen Kim was made for an AUT 3rd year illustration exhibition, and is a visual exploration of suburbia (Botany Downs!). Email kimm.shen at gmail dotcom.
- Adventures Close To Home: a zine about The Slits was written by Melissa from Cherry Bomb - a little while ago but it’s new to me. The zine is partly about The Slits - their music & reputation & how their music was received when it was new, and partly about how the music of The Slits (& later bands) has had a place in Melissa’s life. Tobi Vail gets some of the fanzine love too. Contact Melissa through the Cherry Bomb website.
- 10-22-38 Astoria was the text copied on the first photocopy, and now it’s the name of a photocopy fanzine. Contents include copy-related YouTube recommendations, research into the question of whether photocopying your face is dangerous, the philanthropist who invented the photocopier, what it means when you dream of copiers, & more! My copy came in a limited edition envelope with a photocopier sticker on the front. Contact 10-22-38 Astoria on MySpace or hey_tess at hotmail dotcom.
2 Comments
- johanna replied:
Hi Moira! This is Johanna (Sisu zine). Your name came up recently on an LJ panderexpats discussion about old listings of distros, & Candace (Giantess) pointed me over here when I asked if anyone knew what you were up to these days (any more Child That Mind in the future??). I’m excited that you’re still doing zine stuff (especially b/c I’m feeling sadly burnt-out & disconnected from zines myself lately, so it’s nice to see that others aren’t!).
The workshop about race sounds really great (& hopefully well-attended–one of the ones I helped do @ a zinefest in the US had like 3 people @ it). Have you seen any writeups of it anywhere? I should dig around.
Anyway–I’m glad to see you’re still around & doing zine stuff!!! Hope you’re doing well.
May 5th, 2008 at 6:06 am. Permalink.
- moirabot replied:
Hi! Great to hear from you. How’ve you been? I’ve joined panderexpats - didn’t know of its existence and definitely meet its target demographic, I miss Pander & its message boards.
I’m not doing VERY much zine stuff at the moment, and have felt pretty disconnected from “the scene” recently, but have started this blog as a way of promoting local stuff, and have been thinking about a child that mind #4… I’ve been working on an artist’s book lately, and taking lots of photos (mostly of myself, I’m doing a 366- days- of- self- portraits project this year), and knitting, and working too hard.
My friend Melissa was one of the facilitators of the race workshop, she wrote a bit about it on her blog.
Hope you’re well too! Was there ever a Sisu #4? I know that you sent me #3 and I never quite got around to selling it through Moon Rocket (apologies for flakiness).
May 7th, 2008 at 9:33 pm. Permalink.